Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Cloongownagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloongownagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95042, -8.15001
- SMR number
- RO007-098----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a level landscape. Discovered during 2003 in monitoring a road project. Oval pit (dims. 2m x 1m) filled with charred material and with a distinct reddenend clay edge was discovered and preserved unexcavated. It may be a corn-drying kiln. (Halliday 2006, 4; Gannon 2004 6, site 6)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, S. 2004 Monitoring Report. N4 Hughestown to Meera road project. Roscommon County Council/National Roads Authority. Gannon Jennings Archaeology. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Licence no. 03E1374.
Halliday, S. 2006 N4 Hughestown–Meera road realignment scheme: various. In I. Bennett, (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 423-4, No. 1579. Dublin. Wordwell.
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